Putin dismisses the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the heads of the Crimean Interior Ministry and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergey Abisov and the Sergei Shakhov, respectively.
The decree on the dismissal of the "Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea," Sergey Abisov was published on the Russian government’s website of legal information.
The website of the Crimean authorities noted that Abisov was born in 1967 in Simferopol. He started serving in internal affairs in 1998 as a policeman of a separate battalion of non-departmental police and worked his way up to Deputy Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department. Abisov was appointed the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia on the Crimea on May 6, 2014.
According to another decree, Sergei Shakhov was dismissed from the post of Head of the Russian Administration of Emergency Ministry on the Crimea.
Shakhov is a native of Nova Horlivka of the Donetsk region. Since 2011 he held the position of the Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea. In 2014, after the Russian annexation of the Crimea, he was appointed the Head of the Russian Administration of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Peninsula.
The decrees did not specify why Putin chose to dismiss the two officials.